Andy Worthington and David Remes: GITMO – The Rule of Law and the NDAA

On December 6, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with David Remes and Andy Worthington to discuss the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the U.S. Government’s current position on indefinite detention, and their work examining and dealing with the effects it has had on the detainees that reside there.

After ten years, multiple scandals, and worldwide condemnation of its practices, the highly controversial Guantanamo Bay Detention Center (GTMO) remains open for business. GTMO arose in the last decade to become a global symbol of a new kind of war: one where kidnapping, torture and indefinite detention — even of completely innocent citizens — was justified, as long as it was being carried out by the United States Government, in the name of defeating “terrorism”.

Join our host Tangerine Bolen and co-host Pamela Sue Taylor for an inside look at one of the world’s most notorious prisons. We’ll be joined by GTMO experts David Remes, a human rights attorney who has engaged in extensive pro bono defense of GTMO prisoners, and independent journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files: Stories of 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. We will examine a real-life example of the impact of indefinite detention on innocent citizens, discuss the changing landscape of the rule of law, and assess the dangers of the NDAA, in the wake of the GTMO legacy.

Operation: #OneMoreVote

The FCC voted to repeal net neutrality, letting internet providers like Verizon and Comcast impose new fees, throttle bandwidth, and censor online content. But we can stop them by using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We need one more vote to win in the Senate, and we’re launching an Internet-wide push to get it.

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